…In fact, from Islam’s first contact with Western civilization and for over a millennium thereafter, Muslims behaved not unlike the Islamic State and on the same conviction: that Islam commands war on—and the enslavement or slaughter of—non-Muslims. During this perennial jihad that began in the seventh century, almost three-quarters of Christendom’s original territory—including all of North Africa, Egypt, Greater Syria, and Anatolia—was permanently swallowed up by Islam. European nations and territories that were attacked and/or came under Muslim occupation (sometimes for centuries) include: Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Iceland, Denmark, England, Sicily, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Greece, Russia, Poland, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Lithuania, Romania, Albania, Serbia, Armenia, Georgia, Crete, Cyprus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Belarus, Malta, and Sardinia. READ MORE